List of Kill la Kill characters


The anime series Kill la Kill, produced by Trigger, features a cast of characters with a variety of designs and abilities., a fictional high school situated in Tokyo Bay, Japan, the characters consist mainly of students who wear, which give their wearers superhuman abilities. The protagonist Ryuko Matoi is a transfer student who searches for her father's killer, going against the iron-fisted student council president, Satsuki Kiryuin, and then her mother's fashion empire.

Main characters

Ryuko Matoi

is a 17-year-old schoolgirl, and the protagonist of the series, who transfers to Honnouji Academy in order to find the one who murdered her father Isshin Matoi. She possesses the Scissor Blade, one half of the that Isshin created to destroy uniforms empowered by Life Fibers. At the start of the series, she acquires a special "kamui" uniform named, which grants her special abilities. She lives with the Mankanshoku family. Ryuko is later revealed to be Satsuki's presumed dead younger sister during the battle at the Honnouji Academy Cultural & Sports Grand Festival, revealed to have become a human infused with Life Fibers as the result of her being experimented on as a newborn baby by their mother Ragyo.

Satsuki Kiryuin

is the ruthless student council president of Honnouji Academy of 18-year-old, administers Goku Uniforms to students using various hierarchical schemes such as a no-late day event and battle royale-esque tournaments such as the Naturals Election. She wields a katana named which can sever Life Fibers, later dons Kiryuin Family's kamui after Ryuko arrived to the school. She serves as a major opponent to Ryuko for most of the series. After having learned the true nature of the Life Fibers from her father at an early age, revealing she set up Honnouji Academy to oppose her mother, Satsuki attempts to assassinate Ragyo during the Honnouji Academy Cultural & Sports Grand Festival to celebrate subjugating every school in Japan. During the resulting fight, Satsuki learns Ryuko is her presumed dead younger sister before being captured. After being freed by Nudist Beach, Satsuki makes amends with Ryuko before they team up to face Ragyo in the series finale. In the OVA epilogue, Satsuki closed down Honnouji Academy as fulfilled its purpose while giving Rei closure.

Mako Mankanshoku

is an energetic second-year student who is Ryuko's classmate and best friend. She immediately befriends Ryuko upon the latter's arrival at the school. Mako lives with her parents and younger brother in the slums of Honnō City. She is described as an "uber air-head" whose "unbelievable actions never cease to shock and awe the people around her." Despite putting herself in dangerous situations, she has a good heart and cares for Ryuko, providing her with constant encouragement. Senketsu notes that Mako is vital for getting Ryuko to relax. In the episode where she runs the Fight Club, she receives a two-star Goku Uniform styled like that of a delinquent.

Senketsu

is a talking sailor uniform that Ryuko finds beneath her house. He is a, an outfit made entirely of Life Fibers, which provides its wearer with superhuman abilities in exchange for their blood. Initially, it absorbs a large amount of her blood and only allows her to act for a limited time, however, it is soon able to fully synchronize with Ryuko as she gets over her embarrassment of wearing such a skimpy outfit. Whenever Ryuko destroys a Goku Uniform, Senketsu absorbs its Life Fiber. Mikisugi later reveals that [|Issei Matoi] designed Senketsu from Ryuko's DNA to enable her to fight against the propagators of the Life Fibers. It was only after the revelation of Ryuko's hybrid nature that Senketsu is revealed to be partially human. Though Ryuko defeats Ragyo, Senketsu starts dissolving from having absorbed both their allies' Life Fiber clothing and Ragyo's as he uses his final moments to safely get Ryuko back to Earth.

Supporting characters

Honnouji Academy Elite Four

The are the leaders in Satsuki's student council. They wear Three-Star Goku Uniforms.

Uzu Sanageyama

regulates the athletic clubs at Honnouji Academy, including the Boxing Club and the Tennis Club. He himself specializes in kendo and possesses the three-star Goku Uniform,, which takes the form of a large armored bōgu. He initially possesses, which allows to him to predict his opponent's moves with super fast eyesight. However, after suffering a defeat from Ryuko, he chooses to have his eyes sewn shut, heightening his other senses and giving him a more powerful, which allows him to perceive things with no blind spots. During the final battle with Ragyo, he unseals his eyes, not wanting to hold back against her. He also receives upgraded uniforms such as Blade Regalia MK II, Blade Regalia MK.III, and Blade Regalia: Secret Unsealed.

Houka Inumuta

is in charge of Honnouji Academy's information and strategy committee, aiding the student council by analyzing the performance of Goku Uniforms and kamui in battle, and helping the Sewing Club with upgraded uniforms. His three-star Goku Uniform,, allows him to quickly calculate attack trajectories and use optical camouflage to hide from his opponents. Upgrades include Probe Regalia MK.II, that makes him appear as a polygonal model, and his ultimate uniform of Probe Regalia: Truth Unveiled.

Ira [|Gamagoori]

is a large, muscular man who is Satsuki's loyal enforcer who leads the disciplinary committee at Honnouji Academy. His three-star Goku Uniform is the, which takes the form of bondage gear. By enduring such masochistic attacks, he can activate its second transformation,, which covers his body in thorny whips. His upgraded uniform, Shackle Regalia MK.II, resembles a sarcophagus, and his ultimate uniform is the Shackle Regalia: Persona Unleashed. He is 20 years old, having waited two years after graduating Rinne-Dō Junior High before enrolling at Honnouji to assist Satsuki with her plans. He drives a pink 1959 Cadillac Eldorado.

Nonon Jakuzure

regulates the school's non-athletic clubs, such as Gardening Club and Biology Club. Among the members of the Elite Four, she has been with Satsuki since kindergarten and thus claims that she knows her best. She possesses the three-star Goku Uniform, which transforms into a giant sound system that produces powerful soundwaves and can transform into a flying airship. Later, she receives an upgraded version, Symphony Regalia MK.II, that miniaturizes the airship in a jetpack. Her ultimate uniform is Symphony Regalia: Finale.

Mankanshoku family

The is Mako's family that resides within Honnō City's slums. They take Ryuko in after the latter transfers to Honnouji Academy.

Barazo Mankanshoku

is Mako's father. He is a doctor that runs a back-alley clinic in Hannō City's slums. Barazo admits that he may have killed more patients than he has saved.

Sukuyo Mankanshoku

is Mako's mother. She is a carefree housewife who is kind to Ryuko, and makes croquettes with mystery meats.

Mataro Mankanshoku

is Mako's younger brother. He is a delinquent who initially tries to rob Ryuko when he first encounters her.

Guts

is the Mankanshoku family pug. He is dressed in a light bluish-grey hooded sweater. In episode 2, Mataro says that they named him Guts "because he eats with a lot of gusto".

Nudist Beach

Aikuro Mikisugi

is Ryuko's enigmatic homeroom teacher. He secretly observes and aids Ryuko by leading her to Senketsu. Whilst generally having the appearance of a frail, shaggy teacher, he is actually a glamorous smooth-talker with a habit of slowly stripping his clothes and making moves on Ryuko whenever they are in private, much to Ryuko's embarrassment. Aikuro reveals to Ryuko the existence of Nudist Beach and his being one of its members. Whenever he strips, pink light radiates from his nipples and from his crotch, obscuring them. Mikisugi's character design is based on people such as TM Network's vocalist Takashi Utsunomiya and Kenji Sawada, people who appear smart and good-looking.

Tsumugu Kinagase

is a scientist at the Nudist Beach organization and an acquaintance of Aikuro who sports a red mohawk on top of short black hair. He bears a strong hatred of kamui, which stems from an experiment where his close sister,, died when the kamui she had volunteered to test ran her blood dry. His weapon is a sewing machine pistol that fires needles which severs the connections between the Life Fibers in kamui and Goku Uniforms and their wearers. The needles also act like acupuncture, in that it can immobilize opponents and invigorate them afterward. His catchphrase is.

Isshin Matoi

is Ryuko's deceased father, and the creator of Senketsu and the Scissor Blades. He was murdered by Nui, who stole the purple blade, whilst he left the red blade to Ryuko. He is also the founder of Nudist Beach, an organization created to oppose Revocs. He is actually, Satsuki's father and Ragyo's husband, who faked his death and took on the identity of Isshin Matoi to raise Ryuko.

REVOCS

Ragyo Kiryuin

is Ryuko and Satsuki's mother and the main antagonist of the series, being both Director of Honnouji Academy and the CEO of the Revocs Corporation which manufactures and supplies a preponderance of the world's clothing with her product laced with Life Fibers. Ragyo has aspirations of ruling the Earth through the, the source of all Life Fibers on Earth, turning herself into a human/Life Fiber hybrid to be essentially immortal as long her head is still connected to her body by a single Life Fiber thread or her heart is not destroyed. One of her abilities is Mind Stitch where she imbued Life Fibers into peoples' heads to control like puppets. She eventually dons the wedding dress-like ultimate kamui, Shinra-Kotetsu, gaining the ability which allows her to manipulate anything made of Life Fibers except Senketsu. While Shinra-Kotetsu was originally powered by Rei Honoumaru, Ragyo had it absorb Harime and the Primordial Life Fiber commence her end game. After Ryuko reverses the Life Fiber takeover after Senketsu assimilated Shinra-Kotetsu, Ragyo chooses to crush her heart rather than accept defeat on anyone's terms but her own, warning Ryuko that the other Life Fibers in the universe will eventually come to Earth and finish what she started.

Nui Harime

is the Grand Couturier of the Kiryuin family, initially appearing as a petite twin tailed girl with a parasol and wearing an eyepatch. She has sociopathic tendencies, smiling and acting cheerful even when revealing to Ryuko that she killed her father and stole half of his Rending Scissors, at the cost of her eye. She later reveals that she is actually a human/Life Fiber hybrid that was incubated within the Primordial Life Fiber, with superhuman abilities such as tearing apart Life Fibers in Goku Uniforms and kamuis, manipulating people's minds with Mental Stitching, healing from severe cuts to her body, cloning herself, and changing her appearance. The only time in the series where she loses her cool is when Ryuko severs her arms at the Life Fiber level. She helps create Ragyo's kamui Shinra-Kotetsu and sacrifices herself at Ragyo's request to help the latter attain her ultimate power.

Rei Hououmaru

is a Revocs corporate officer and Ragyo's personal secretary. Before she was adopted by Ragyo as a child, she had lived in a wartorn African village whose inhabitants were said to have a unique resistance to Life Fibers. Following Ragyo's death, Rei attempted to exact revenge by using Life Fiber-based clones of Satsuki and her Elite Four to disrupt Honnouji Academy's graduation ceremony.

Other characters

Takiji Kuroido

is the head steward to the Kiryuin family. He reports directly to Ragyo and takes care of the Kiryuin Mansion.

Mitsuzo Soroi

is Satsuki's personal and trusted butler, having served her since her early childhood. He is also Shiro Iori's uncle. Soroi often serves tea to Satsuki, but he also serves tea to the Elite Four, and later the Nudist Beach members when they go to rescue Satsuki. He wears a three-piece suit.

Kaneo Takarada

is the student council president of Naniwa Kinman High School in the Osaka region, his family's wealth rivals that of the Kiruyins as he secretly funded Nudist Beach. Takarada uses his Takarada-printed money to have locals fight Kiryuin's forces for him when they arrives to both conquer his school and destroy the Nudist Beach base located in the city. After Ragyo and the Covers take over Japan, Takarada spends his remaining fortune to complete Nudist Beach's battleship Naked Sol.

Honnouji Academy club leaders

Shiro Iori

is the president of Honnouji Academy's Sewing Club, which works on improving and upgrading the Goku Uniforms. Shiro is also the nephew of Satsuki's butler Misuzo. His three-star Goku Uniform is called.

Other club leaders

Several of the school's club leaders challenge Ryuko in early episodes of the series. They include:
Some additional club leaders make an appearance in episode 7 when Satsuki offers upgraded Goku Uniforms and perks for club presidents.
Located in Kobe, the is the target assigned to Ira Gamagōri's party during the Tri-City Schools Raid Trip. With Kobe being a port city, the school building is modeled after a sailing ship. Among its known students are:
Located in Kyoto, the is the target assigned to Nonon Jakuzure's party during the Tri-City Schools Raid Trip. The student council leaders of Abekamo Academy consist of four guardians, named after the Four Symbols:
Kill la Kill won multiple prizes during the 4th Newtype Anime Awards, including Best Character Design. In the Best Mascot category, Senketsu placed third and Guts placed ninth. In Best Female Character, Ryuko placed second, and Mako placed third. Aya Suzaki, who voiced Mako, placed fourth in Voice Actor Award, while Ami Koshimizu, who voiced Ryuko, placed seventh.